What does "packing" mean?

The action of the verb.; The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.

What is a synonym for "packing"?

Common synonyms include: air express, airfreight, airlift, allocation, asportation, assignment.

//ˈpækɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Noun

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The action of the verb.; The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey. countable, uncountable
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carrying something in a pack on the back wordnet
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The action of the verb.; The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts. countable, uncountable
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the enclosure of something in a package or box wordnet
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The action of the verb.; The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack. countable, uncountable

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any material used especially to protect something wordnet
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The action of the verb.; The forming of players into a scrum. countable, uncountable
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As a concrete noun.; Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. countable, uncountable
"A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly."
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As a concrete noun.; Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. countable, uncountable
"Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating)."
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As a concrete noun.; A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging. countable, uncountable
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As a concrete noun.; Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications. countable, uncountable
"Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column"
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Clipping of meatpacking. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable